Teach me, half the gladness

The poet, Shelley idealizes the bird skylark as a spirit of joy. After this, the poet seeks the inspiration from it in order to sing enhantingly to the delight of humanity. The poet makes a fervent appeal to the skylark to provide him with the spontaneous joy that it possesses and expressed in its song. The poet feels that this divine spirit must know more about the mysteries of life and death, otherwise it could not have sung with such joyous rapture without a trace of sadness. The poet wants to take encourage from it and inspire the world.

             The poet wants to take inspiration partly. Because he was an inhabitant of the corrupted mundane world. His mind was also full of corruption, dissatisfaction, sorrows and sufferings of the materialistic world. And the skylark is an inhabitant of imaginary world,full of peace and satisfaction. That's why, the poet had not had the power of taking the full inspiration from the 'blithe spirit', skylark. So the poet said, "Teach me, half the gladness."